Research in Social Problems and Public Policy. Volume 19 - Government Secrecy by Ted I. K. Youn. (ed.)

Šķiet, lielisks papildinājums zināšanu krātuvei, ietverts pat raksts, par Sigmund Freud as a theorist of government secrecy "Drawing on Freud's psychological theories from his works Civilization and its Discontents and A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Gibbs observes:one of Freud's most important insights is his view of the human mind as a highly complex censoring mechanism, which systematically censors certain types of information, while it leaves uncensored other types of information.""

§.7. So, the life and strength of civil liberty consist in limited Government and unlimited freedom of the written word; as long as serious punishment follows all writing which is indisputably indecent, contains blasphemy against God, insults private individuals and incites apparent vices.
§.8. Divine revelations, wise fundamental laws and the honour of private individuals cannot suffer any dangerous damage by such freedom of expression. Because truth always wins when it is allowed to be denied and defended equally.
§.9. On the contrary, Freedom of the written word develops knowledge most highly, removes all harmful statutes, restrains the injustices of all officials, and is the Government’s surest defence in a free state. Because it makes the people in love with such a mode of government.[..] /vairāk/

"It is the distillation of an entire library’s worth of material that should be of interest to students of government and political science, as well as concerned citizens who find themselves confronting official secrecy. [..] The best that has been thought and written” on the subject. /FAS blog/"

This collection contains 45 historical and contemporary readings on the topic of government secrecy in the US in different time periods and contexts. Maret (library and information science, San Jose State U.) and Goldman (intelligence, National Defence Intelligence College) include readings written as early as 1787 (by Thomas Jefferson), up to 2008, most of which are from the mid-twentieth century and later. Readings cover the history, philosophy, theory, practice, critique, and justification of the field, and consider definitions, organizational aspects in selected intelligence agencies such as the CIA and NSA, criteria for government secret keeping, secrecy as regulation, national security and presidential power, and after 9/11 and the future of information. /amazon.com/

A social world whose workings are transparent to all is a social world that is amendable to the dictates of reason, arrived at openly through the public excercise of irrefutable logic validated by society’s sovereign subjects themselves. In such a world there is no world, there is no place for suspiction and doubt; there are no dark recessess to harbor occult cosmologies, no closed chambers in which conspiracies might be hached. Indeed, belief in indecipherable powers constitutes modentity’s dark Other – and Other condemned as “superstition”, to fade under the light of historical progress. (p.7)